From Prague to Jerusalem : an uncommon journey of a journalist / Milan J. Kubic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kubic, Milan J., author.

Series:

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kubic, Milan J.

Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography.

Foreign correspondents.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, Illinois : Northern Illinois University Press, [2017]

Summary:

After spending his childhood in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and witnessing the Communist takeover of his country in 1948, a young journalist named Milan Kubic embarked on a career as a Newsweek correspondent that spanned thirty-one years and three continents, reporting on some of the most memorable events in the Middle East. Now, Kubic tells this fascinating story in depth. Kubic describes his escape to the US Zone in West Germany, his life in the Displaced Persons camps, and his arrival in 1950s America, where he worked as a butler and factory worker and served in a US Army intelligence unit during Senator Joe McCarthy's witch-hunting years. Hired by Newsweek after graduating from journalism school, Kubic covered the White House during the last year of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the US Senate run by Lyndon Johnson, and the campaign that elected President John F. Kennedy. Kubic spent twenty-six years reporting from abroad, including South America, the Indian subcontinent, and Eastern and Western Europe. Of particular interest is his account of the seventeen years—starting with the Six Day War in 1967—when he watched the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Beirut and Jerusalem. In From Prague to Jerusalem, readers will meet the principal Israeli participants in the Irangate affair, accompany Kubic on his South American tour with Bobby Kennedy, take part in his jungle encounter with the king of Belgium, witness the inglorious end of Timothy Leary's flight to the Middle East, and observe the debunking of Hitler's bogus diaries. This riveting memoir will appeal to general readers and scholars interested in journalism, the Middle East, and US history and politics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

PART I

CHAPTER 1 THE END OF AN ERA

CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST CATASTROPHE: World War II

CHAPTER 3 AN UNEASY INTERLUDE

CHAPTER 4 THE SECOND CATASTROPHE: Communist Coup d'Etat

CHAPTER 5 ESCAPE TO THE US ZONE IN GERMANY

CHAPTER 6 IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS

CHAPTER 7 WAITING FOR A US VISA

CHAPTER 8 AMERICA!

PART II

CHAPTER 9 ON THE STAFF OF NEWSWEEK

CHAPTER 10 FRUSTRATED IN THE HEMISPHERE

CHAPTER 11 MY QUARREL WITH THE REFORMADORES

CHAPTER 12 THE SIX DAY WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH

CHAPTER 13 ARAFAT AND THE RISE OF THE PLO

CHAPTER 14 COVERING THE LOSERS' BEAT

CHAPTER 15 WATCHING THE SOVIET SATELLITES

CHAPTER 16 MEETING THE NEW GERMANS

PART III

CHAPTER 17 MY LAST BEAT: Israel

CHAPTER 18 MENACHEM BEGIN AND THE RISE OF ISRAErS RIGHT

CHAPTER 19 ISRAEL'S SECRET KEEPERS-AND LEAKERS

CHAPTER 20 POLLARD, IRAN GATE, AND BUS 300

CHAPTER 21 MY QUARREL WITH ISRAEL

CHAPTER 22 THE WEST BANKERS

EPILOGUE

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501757037

1501757032

9781609092238

1609092236